This is a photocopy of part of an article published in a Greensboro newspaper around April 1, 1973, which reports on UNCG Chancellor James Ferguson's ruling that funding be restored to the Neo-Black Society, a student organization. Funding was...

Tom Kirby-Smith Jr. (1938- ) began teaching at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1967, retiring in 2003 as professor of English. An author and poet, he is a founding editor of the Greensboro Review, the literary magazine...

This is a photocopy of part of an article published in the Greensboro Daily News on April 1, 1973, which reports on UNCG Chancellor James Ferguson's ruling that funding be restored to the Neo-Black Society, a student organization. Funding was...

The first half of the 20th century was the most prolific period of mural painting in U.S. history. Two specific time periods, the Progressive Era (1904-1933) and the New Deal Era (1930s-early 1940s), saw the creation of Federal Public Arts...

Items include memorandums, letters, and a sociology paper on the subject of the Student Government recommending the reclassification of the Neo-Black Society from a Type II to a Type I organization after the organization was charged with racial...

In this November 15, 1979 Greensboro Record article, Jo Spivey reports on efforts to obtain a North Carolina historical marker at the site of the 1960 Woolworth store sit-ins in Greensboro. Spivey writes that there had been earlier fears that there...

This typed note details the funding amounts and membership numbers for the Neo-Black Society at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). This appears to be a part of the administrative review of the UNCG Student Government...

Adelaide Fortune Holderness (1913-2013) was a history major and member of the Class of 1934 at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and received an honorary degree in 1975. She was...

In this commentary published March 28, 1973 in The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), English professor James E, Helgeson expresses dismay at the decision of the Student Government...

This March 28, 1973, photo spread from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), includes eight captioned photographs of a sit-in held in response to the Student Government Association's (SGA)...

This September, 1973, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), announces the first meeting of the Neo Black Society during the 1973-74 school year, following the previous year's...

In this April 12, 1973, editorial from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), students are urged to stay informed about the ongoing Neo Black Society controversy, and not to assume that the...

This April 3, 1973, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), reports that Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson had, as a result of a decision by a faculty appeals committee,...

In this April 3, 1973, editorial from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), the newspaper questions the legality of Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson's decision to restore funding and...

This March 28, 1973, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), reports on the Student Government Association's (SGA) revocation of recognition and funding from the Neo Black...

The minutes of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Student Senate meeting of April 10, 1973, documents a discussion of Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson's decisions regarding the funding and recognition of the Neo-Black...

This seven-page document consists of the text of a February 25, 1973, decision by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Student Government Association's (SGA)Committee on Classification of Organizations as to whether the Neo-Black...

This 21-page paper outlines the series of events and issues surrounding the 1973 reclassification of the Neo-Black Society as a UNCG student organization. The UNCG Student Government Association reclassified the black cultural organization due to...

This October 12, 1973, letter from University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Dean of Students James H. Allen to attorney Michael K. Curtis, reports that the Government Association (SGA) had approved the new constitution of the Neo-Black...